Terms and conditions for becoming a Registrar

Registrar

Based on the new dual level so-called Register-Registrar Registration System of .ee domain rules, persons who wish to begin dealing with the registration of Estonian ccTLD sub-domains can accredit themselves at the Estonian Internet Foundation as an .ee Registrar. If the Registrar meets all of the requirements set by the Estonian Internet Foundation in the Registrar Contract, he/she may become a Registrar.

Registration Services

In accordance with the Registration Contract, it is the right and obligation of the Registrar to offer Registrants the following Registration Services:

1. Domain Name registration

2. Deletion of a registration

3. Extension of a registration

4. Transferring of a Domain Name

5. Updating of contact information

6. Administration of name servers

7. Switching of Registrars

Registrar accreditation

The accreditation process for Registrars is comprised of the following stages:

1. Submission of application for becoming a Registrar;

2. At least one of the applicant’s employees is certified by the Estonian Internet Foundation (has completed the training programme);

3. The applicant has successfully completed the registry’s EPP server test;

4. Agreed to the terms and conditions of the Estonian Internet Foundation’s Registrar Contract.

Submission of application

The application is the potential Registrar’s first step on the road to becoming a Registrar. Prior to the submission of an application to the EIF, one should definitely examine the contents of the Registrar Contract and analyse the organisation’s capability to cope with all the rights and obligations listed therein. The application can be examined and submitted here. Submitted applications shall be reviewed by the Estonian Internet Foundation at the first available opportunity. If the information listed in the application is incomplete, then the EIF shall let the applicant know.

Certification

Following the receipt of a suitable application, the EIF sends the applicant information for completing the training programme, including opportunities for completing the EPP server test. The sequence in time is designated is such a manner that the applicant is able to select the most suitable variant on his/her own from among the offered variants. In order to ensure that a member of the applicant’s team has acquired sufficient knowledge regarding the general operation of the domain world as well as Estonia’s registry system, at least one employee or representative of the applicant must pass the written test based on the training programme. Upon the successful completion of the test, the person may consider themselves to be a certified employee. Certification is individual and belongs to the person who has successfully completed the test. If, for example, the certified employee moves from one registrar to another, then the certification moves with them. If such a situation results in the first Registrar no longer having a single registered employee, the Registrar must, within three months, certify a new employee at the Estonian Internet Foundation.

EPP test

To ensure that the applicant is capable of communicating with the registry’s EPP server, an EPP test must be completed. The test is used to control whether the applicant is capable of creating all seven registry entry related EPP commands and forwarding them to the registry’s EPP test server. The applicant is forwarded the registry’s EPP test server data so that the applicant would be able to control the operation of their software. When the applicant is ready for testing, the test data is forwarded to him/her. EIF controls the results of the test and notifies the applicant.

Conclusion of Registrar Contract

The Registrar Contract is signed in paper format by the authorised representatives of EIF and the Registrar.

Additional Registrar related questions can be sent to registrar@internet.ee

 

First step: Registrar application

 

Registrar applications must be filled and signed by a competent representative. Signed applications can be sent or brought to Estonian Internet Foundation's location at Silikaltsiidi 3a, 11216 Tallinn, Estonia or signed applications can be sent to application@internet.ee.

Documents:

Registrar application

Training material(updated 26.05.2010)

.ee specific requirements that are good to know in advance

 

Domain regulation sub-point 4.1.2 dictates that 4 registration services(domain registration, contact information update, domain deletion and registrant change) require the corresponding application to be signed by the registrants or the registrants administrative contact. This signed application must be added to a respectable EPP command.

Registrar contracts technical annex sub-points 1.6-1.9 states the requirements for the application sent via EPP are as follows:

• applications must be in pdf, odt, doc or docx file format - this includes documents that have been scanned, applications inside a digitally signed container and credit institutions proof of payment
• applications signed personally while a registrars representative is present must be scanned into a document form
• digitally signed applications must be in ddoc or bdoc conteiner
• if a persons identity was confirmed via bank transfer as described in domain regulation sub-point 4.1.2.2 then together with the application must also be a proof of payment from the registrars credit institution, if multible documents are sent as a part of the application then these must first be compressed via zip, rar, gz or tar format.

Another .ee specific requirement is that according to domains regulation sub-point 2.14 administrative contact can only be a citizen of the Republic of Estonia with an Estonian personal identification code or citizen of the European Union, member state of the European Economic Area or Swiss confederation, whose place of residence is registered as Estonia.